The Gold Award winning Cheshire East Garden ‘Cheshire Cheese Please’ featured a wedge of Cheshire cheese on a picnic rug complete with a Cheshire cat, mice, cherry tomatoes and a 6ft long wooden cheese knife. The Council was promoting the county’s cheesemaking heritage – traditional Cheshire cheese is thought to be the oldest cheese in the UK, and features in the Doomsday Book. We were there sampling our award winning Spreadable Goats’ Cheese along with a traditionally made Appleby’s Cheshire Cheese; demonstrating the two ends of Cheshire’s cheesemaking spectrum – from how cheesemaking began in Cheshire to the diverse cheeses made in the county today.

Award winning garden designer and TV presenter Chris Beardshaw came to the Cheshire East stand and enjoyed munching on the cheeses as did thousands of the public who attended the show last week.